..The main conclusion of this study is that language comprehension scores grow significantly higher over time post-surgery in CI than in paired-matched non-CI children, despite better initial pure tone audiometric thresholds of the latter...

..The present study was aimed to compare gain and speech intelligibility measured in quiet and in noise between the Signia hearing aid and the Vibrant Soundbridge (VSB), both devices using the same sound processing technology...

Comprehension of language in congenitally deaf children with and without cochlear implants

..The main conclusion is that receptive language scores grow significantly higher over time after surgery in CI than in pair-matched non-CI children, despite better initial pure tone audiometric thresholds of the latter...

Differential recruitment of the speech processing system in healthy subjects and rehabilitated cochlear implant patients

..Hear. Res. 223 (1-2), 48-60] shows that, while ELAR and EABR latencies are related with parameters that reflect the integrity of the auditory pathway, ELAR latency is less dependent on stimulation parameters than EABR latency...

..Analysis of the connexin 26 gene is also indicated, as it is frequently involved in this disorder. Further genetic analysis in affected families will aid in detecting other as yet unidentified genes responsible for hearing impairment...

Relationship between NRT measurements and behavioral levels in children with the Nucleus 24 cochlear implant may change over time: preliminary report

..To report the audiometric outcomes of patients with severe sensorineural hearing loss and who have been fitted with a Middle Ear Transducer (MET) on one side and fitted with an optimized conventional hearing aid on the other side...

..To analyse the anatomical and functional results after second-look ossiculoplasty using Titanium (TI) and Hydroxyapatite (HA) prosthesis and to study the prognostic factors for good functional results...

..To assess audiological performance, satisfaction rate, and side effects of 100 patients who have been using the middle ear implant Vibrant Soundbridge (VSB) for 5 to 8 yr when compared with data collected from 3 to 18 mo postsurgery...

..We suggest that functional compensation of sensory deprivation does not require slowly progressive colonization of superior temporal regions by visual inputs, but can exploit a switch to pre-existing latent multimodal connectivity...

..This suggests that specific cross-modal interaction involving advanced stages in the visual processing hierarchy develops after cochlear implantation and may be the correlate of increased usage of lip-reading...